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NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS IN AN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
Marshman R.,
Fisher M. McD.,
Coupland G. A. E.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1980.tb04183.x
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , surgery , appendicitis , sepsis , wound infection
A simple nutritional assessment was performed in 92 consecutive patients undergoing abdominal surgery, excluding appendicitis. The patients were given a nutritional score, and on the basis of that score were described as malnourished or normal. There was a statistically significant increase in postoperative complications in the malnourished group. This increase was observed in both the major and the minor complication groups, and also when septic and non‐septic, and wound and non‐wound, complications were considered.